@belowtheterrace … the 2 in my hand are carmine… on the bush red gem.
Carmine are 2-3x the size of red gem and sweet scarlet.
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Feijoa tasty blooms opening up, the petals taste great
Elberta peaches sizing up
Belle of Ga peaches sizing up (not a fan of this white fleshed peach, may graft over this limb)
Silas woods sapodilla about to be covered in blooms, excited to get a couple fruit this year
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Maiden Blush has a prolonged bloom, it seems, with some flower buds swelling while the first are open. This is its second season with any bloom at all: 7 - 12? spurs & tips. Maybe I can get some dried this time around.
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Fruitset on peach & almond hybrid Robijn
and on Ferraduel almond which is my only young almond planted 2-4 years ago to keep flowers and fruit after frosts. So, I guess, I’m getting some St.Julien rootstock in spring and doing some grafting.
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As a kid I had this.idea of red and yellow apples + summer glass (white transparent) and not much else in terms of varieties (the green Granny Smith got here in mid 90’s). Nobody told me they came in so many shapes and colurs or that I was goimg to enjoy watching something as pedestrian grow.
Well, here’s that’s swelling nicely:
Prinzenapfel that has a Czech name translating as Barrel Rattler and has a distinct barrel shape and nice spicy taste:
Roter Herbstkalvill:
White Transparent which has at this stage almost the same shape as the Kalvill down to the sharp seam-like line on some apples:
Red Delicious with its typical shape:
And some simply round Baya Marisas for contrast:
The rest is still too small.
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How far apart are those fence posts.
They are on steroids! Perhaps they will ripen soon or grow to get size of a grapefruit.
What size of pot the sapodila is growing in, I got a Alano and needs to be potted up from 2gallon nursery.
@Tana … those are beautiful apples.
Way to go !!!
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It’s around about a 2 gallon, thinking to up pot it before the flowers open
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Flavor Grenade Pluot looking great.
I’m contemplating putting Clemson bags on some, though I’ve read here and there they aren’t a great choice for humid southern climates as they hay hold too much moisture?
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Is this a place to ask for advice on thinning Asian pears? Mine are about the size of marbles, maybe a little smaller. This is my first bloom and I’m not sure how to go about doing it. cc @mamuang
My patch of elderberry …
My deer gave some on the outside a height adjustment… the taller ones were not eaten.
Should be blooming before too long.
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They set fruit in clusters. Each cluster has anywhere from 6-10 fruitlets. How many clusters of fruit do you have?
If you don’t have a lot, you could leave 3 per cluster for now. (Just in case pests or birds damage a few.
Then, you need to figure out if a branch or a twig could handle those fruit. If not, you should get rid of the fruit.
Then, a couple weeks from now, you may want to reduce the number from 3 to either 2 or 1 per cluster.
This is your first year so you can be more cautious and leave more fruit. Once your tree sets a lot of fruit, you will need to get rid of many clusters because the tree may not have enough leaves to feed each pear.
I have found that Asian pears don’t shed their fruitlets as readily as Euro pears or apples.
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Chito honeyberry, third year pineberries, Contender peaches, Kiowa blackberry, and Joan J already flowering on a brand new primocane- truly everbearing.
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